Parish and School Closing
...n de Porres. In Chester, all six parishes in the city would merge into one new parish called Blessed (now Saint) Katharine Drexel. Other parishes to close in 1993 included St. Elizabeth and the Church of the Gesu. Halvey_394J_071 Halvey_724J_046 Halvey_724J_041 Schools Affected In addition to parishes, a number
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...lets on the conflict. One notable writer was Father Edward Lodge Curran of New York, who created the International Catholic Truth Society in order to spread his views on important Catholic topics. In one of his pamphlets, he described the war as “a struggle between civilization and communism” and of
Mary Brackett Willcox and Catholicism in the Suburbs
...Mary was born in 1796 in Massachusetts to Captain James Brackett and Elizabeth Odiorne.[1] In 1819, she married James Mark Willcox from Ivy Mill, PA.[2] James’s grandfather founded the paper mill in Ivy Mills in 1726, which would go on to print paper for Benjamin Franklin and money for the
Holy Redeemer Chinese Catholic Church
...pand,” Catholic Philly, (April 6, 2011), http://catholicphilly.com/2011/04/news/local-news/chin-helping-chinatown-expand/ [12] ibid. Archives Archives Select Month February 2026 January 2026 September 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 December 2024 October 2024 July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April